Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls

DORKING CEMETERY LODGE, ENTRANCE ARCH, FORMER MORTUARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, REIGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387308
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:
Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls
Statutory Address:
DORKING CEMETERY LODGE, ENTRANCE ARCH, FORMER MORTUARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, REIGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1387308
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:
Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls
Statutory Address 1:
DORKING CEMETERY LODGE, ENTRANCE ARCH, FORMER MORTUARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, REIGATE ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DORKING CEMETERY LODGE, ENTRANCE ARCH, FORMER MORTUARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, REIGATE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 17455 49942

Details

TQ14NE DORKING REIGATE ROAD

850/10/10020 Dorking Cemetery Lodge,
entrance arch, former
mortuary and walls

GV II

Cemetery lodge with attached entrance arch, mortuary chapel and walls. Built in 1856 by the firm of Cubitt and sons to the design of Henry Clutton. Early English style. Built of flint with stone dressings and tiled roof with ridge tiles and two stone chimneystacks. Lodge to extreme left of two storeys and attics; 2:1 windows to front. Windows have Caernarvon arches and have late C20 UPVC replacement windows. L-shaped plan. Front has one two-light casement and one four-light casement to first floor. Gabled dormer. Plinth and bands between floors. Rear has lower gabled wing of two bays with external chimneystack. Adjoining is an entrance archway and former mortuary of one storey. To the left is a Caernarvon-arched pedestrian arch, an arched carriage entrance under gable with kneelers. Three lancets, a triple arched window and a further lancet to front elevation. Rear has timber-framed verandah and gable. Attached is a low flint cemetery wall with brick buttresses, stone coping, brick and stone gatepiers and cast iron gates with quatrefoil motifs.


Listing NGR: TQ1745549942

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Legacy System number:
475258
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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